provisional mandibles

provisional mandibles
(ARTHROPODA: Insecta)
In some Coleoptera, parts of the mandible found in the pupa, for escaping the cocoon; imaginal cephalic cocoon-cutters.

Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology. . 2005.

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